Acdec Section II Literature 24-25

What is Environmental Literature

• Writings about the environment

• Genre about environmental themes

• Fiction on the environment

• Theoretical criticism on the environment

Which of the following is not a way that an author's interpretation can differ from the authors intention?

• Cultural understandings

• Social upheaval

• Personal views

• Psychological biases

What is a way that readers of literature may assess how the natural world is represented in literature?

• Ecocriticism

• Literary Criticism

• Marxist Criticism

• Moral Criticism

What are the two key features of environmental literature?

• Redefining the concept of what is natural

• The perception of what is perfect

• Finding harmony in nature

• The determination of perfection in societies

What is a utopia?

• Place of perfection, socially and economically

• Place of suffering and injustice

• Place of clashing belief and social demise

• Place of feigned paradise

What is a dystopia

• Society characterized by oppression and societal decline

• A place of unspoiled perfection

• Satirical society used to show complicating narratives

• A place of change and upheaval

When did the romantic movement occur?

• Late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries

• Late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries

• Mid seventeenth century

• Mid nineteenth century

Which two answers describe the transcendentalist movement?

• A belief in the theory of innate goodness and the idea of insight over logic

• A belief in the natural world and sublime imagery

• A movement that based off the preservation and conservation of the environment

• A belief that there was alternate ways of living, including individual freedom and humanitarianism

Two of the most renowned Transcendentalists include which of the following

• Henry David Thoreau

• John Muir

• Aldo Leopold

• Ralph Waldo

What did the majority of John Muir's writing NOT include?

• Natures exploitation

• National parks

• Nature as a sacred space

• Natures connection to humans